DSC Archives

Blog for the Overgrounders universe, and the fantasy web serial Blue Days, Black Nights. Updates Mondays. READ IT HERE!

[overgrounders]

[08/01/24] Update!

8. Immediate Danger (Pt. 4)

Terra makes a decision she can't take back.

BDBN is an urban fantasy web serial that updates on Mondays.

Read the latest log HERE! Or start from the beginning HERE!

[overgrounders]

[18/12/23] Update!

8. Immediate Danger (Pt. 3)

Tensions deepen as Terra tries to move her investigation in a new direction.

BDBN is an urban fantasy web serial that updates on Mondays.

Read the latest log HERE! Or start from the beginning HERE!

[overgrounders]

[11/12/23] Update!

8. Immediate Danger (Pt. 2)

Low on options, the DSC call on their youngest intern to unearth the truth about Soren's powers.

BDBN is an urban fantasy web serial that updates on Mondays.

Read the latest log HERE! Or start from the beginning HERE!

[overgrounders]

[04/12/23] Update!

8. Immediate Danger (Pt. 1)

In 2009, Soren contemplates his fate.

BDBN is an urban fantasy web serial that updates on Mondays.

Read the latest log HERE! Or start from the beginning HERE!

[overgrounders]

[27/11/23] Update!

7. Living Doll (Pt. 2)

Over eggs, Pandora explains her predicament.

BDBN is an urban fantasy web serial that updates on Mondays.

Read the latest log HERE! Or start from the beginning HERE!

[overgrounders]

7. Living Doll (Pt. 1)

Mattias tests his theory by setting a trap for his tiny houseguest.

BDBN is an urban fantasy web serial that updates on Mondays.

Read the latest log HERE! Or start from the beginning HERE!

[overgrounders]

So, as advance notice, the next several logs are divided up as “part 1/part 2”. Being new at this, we went into it with a small (and in hindsight, over-optimistic) backlog that we burned through immediately when I got sick. That made us realize we needed a much more robust backlog, and to slow things down while we build that. Breaking logs in half is a way of keeping to the weekly schedule while making sure that far future updates go much more smoothly. Thanks for bearing with us!

[overgrounders]

[13/11/23] Update!

6. Pandora Is Awake

Pandora fends for herself in a perilous new environment. Mattias notices strange goings-on in his apartment, but soon suspects an unlikely source.

Blue Days, Black Nights is a dark urban fantasy web serial that updates Mondays.

Read the latest log HERE! Or start from the beginning HERE!

[overgrounders]

WIP

[overgrounders]

[30/10/23] Update!

5. Hawthorn's Children

In 2009, the DSC convene to discuss the fate of a young psychic with dangerous potential.

Blue Days, Black Nights is a dark urban fantasy web serial that updates Mondays.

Read the latest log HERE! Or start from the beginning HERE! (We are off for one more week. The next update will be on November 13th.)

[overgrounders]

[16/10/23] Update!

4. Conspirators

Terra catches up with her ex.

Read the latest log HERE! Or start from the beginning HERE!

(We are off next week. The next update will be on October 30th.)

[overgrounders]

[09/10/23] Update!

3. Kings' Moot

At the solstice assembly of the fey, Terra hears word of an old friend.

Read the latest log HERE! Or start from the beginning HERE!

[overgrounders]

[02/10/23] First Update!

Hey guys, the site is officially live. Pages are cleaned up, there's some new art, but most importantly, BDBN has started serializing. We'll be posting a new log every Monday, but for this first update, we're starting with two.

1. Prologue: 2009/2027

Mattias meets with his psychiatrist. Eighteen years ago, the research facility is destroyed.

2. The Music Box

Mattias has a chance encounter in the Underground.

Start reading HERE!

[overgrounders]

Brief introduction to Overgrounders fey lore:

You know how every paranormal romance series has like, shapeshifter gangs? Like just a club that all the wolves (or tigers or selkies) seem to know about?

It’s like that, but instead of turning into a sexy wolf, they turn into, like, the Crawler from Annihilation (and also a sexy wolf)

[overgrounders]

Character Dossier: Dominic

"I love a good coup."

DOB: 26/11/1990 (age 36) Height: 5'10 Psychic power: None (but fey magic) Fey court: Whale Road (birth court) Theme song: Somebody to Love - Queen

Growing up, Dominic always looked out for his more magical sister Terra. He learned to navigate the complexities of fey politics with his intelligence and social savvy, but now works in the human world as a journalist critical of the DSC. He blames himself for Terra's current circumstances, and hopes that her return also signals a return to their previous relationship.

[overgrounders]

Character Dossier: Ellie

"They can't all be weighty prophecies. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

DOB: 10/01/1995 (age 32) Height: 5'6 Psychic power: Future sight Theme song: Poster of a Girl - Metric

Ellie is Soren’s older sister, an equally powerful psychic occasionally called by the epithet “the Higher Power of Fate”. Like their father, Ellie is a seer with the ability to foretell the future, as well as ‘retcon’ events that are inconsistent with the narrative presented by her visions. She has mixed feelings about her powers, as well as how often people contrast her with her infamous sibling, whom she has done everything to protect since childhood.

[overgrounders]

Character Dossier: Lysander

"The point is moot, my friend. I'm already inside."

DOB: 19/09/1995 (age 31) Height: 5'11 Psychic power: Mnemopath Theme song: In Dreams - Ben Howard

Pandora’s original caretaker, who fled the DSC with her under circumstances he is somewhat cagey about. Thanks to a chance encounter, he seeks shelter with Mattias. Lysander is a psychic, a self-described “memory reader” who can page through thoughts and dreams, but focuses on a theoretical understanding of magic. Cantankerous and theatrical, he is quite different from Mattias, and sparks often fly between the pair over how best to keep Pandora safe.